It is success that creates success and decay that produces decay.
Anthony Trollope, Dr Wortle’s School
My university’s administrators most certainly don’t understand what Trollope’s character Dr Wortle, a school director, understood so well. A school in a grip of an endless budget crisis that eliminates programs and can’t sustain its offerings isn’t attractive. People stop coming. We lost 18% of our students since these austerity cuts began. This is an exercise that tends towards zero.
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